“Empires on Drugs: Materia Medica and the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance,” in Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, ed. Entangled Histories of the Early Modern Iberian and British Empires (in preparation, forthcoming 2015)

Book reviews

Review of Sanjay Subrahmanyam, From the Tagus to the Ganges: Explorations in Connected History (Oxford University Press, 2011) in Not Even Past, Nov., 2014.

Review of Christopher P. Iannini, Fatal Revolutions Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature (University of North Carolina Press, 2012) in The Archives of Natural History Vol. 40, Issue 1 (2013), 183-4.

Review of Ulinka Rublach, Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in the Renaissance (Oxford University Press, 2010) in Not Even Past, April, 2011.

Articles in preparation

“Cannibal Medicine in the Early Modern World: a Reassessment.”

“Slavers and Alchemists: Experimental Healing in the Portuguese Tropics, 1680-1740.”

OTHER WRITING

2015 “The History of the New Age Movement,” Aeon Magazine, April 7, 2015.

2014 “The Pharmaca of Jozeph Coelho: A Family of Converso Apothecaries in Seventeenth- Century Coimbra,” The Recipes Project, November 20, 2014.

2014 “Animals in the Archive,” JSTOR Daily, October 29, 2014.

2014 “Lessons from Rare Book School,” The Paris Review Daily, October 23, 2014.

2012 “‘The Treasury of Drugs Unlock’d’: Drogas from the Portuguese Tropics in an Era of Pandemics, c. 1650-1720,” pre-circulated paper workshop at 10th Annual Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine, Yale University, October 5, 2012.

2012 “The Transnational Drug Trade and its Transformations: a View from the Portuguese Empire, 1640-1750,” 19th International Conference of Europeanists, Council for European Studies, Boston, MA, March 22, 2012.

2011 “Travels in Paradise: Witnessing Science and the Supernatural in the Early Modern Tropics,” Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, April 15, 2011.

2010 “Varieties of Sacrilegious Experience in the Seventeenth Century,” North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), Western Division Annual Conference, Austin TX, September 25, 2010.

2010 “A Social History of Falsehood: George Psalmanazar and Enlightenment Epistemologies of Empire,” Correspondence: Travel, Writing and Literatures of Exploration, c. 1750-c.1850, University of Edinburgh and the National Library of Scotland, April 8, 2010.

2007 English as a Second Language (ESL) instructor, ELS at Dominican University,

San Rafael, California. June-August 2007.

DIGITAL HUMANITIES

2012- Editor-in-chief and co-founder, The Appendix: a Journal of Narrative and Experimental History [theappendix.net], an online quarterly that experiments with digital methods in historical writing. Author of twelve articles and thirty-five Appendix blog posts (collectively read by over 500,000 unique visitors).